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900 W. Main St.,
PO Box 690 Grangeville, ID 83530
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| GHS quiz bowl takes top spot |
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 | | Contributed photo | | Grangeville High School?Academic Quiz Bowl members include (front, L-R) Joey Higgins, Chuy Ramirez, Lily Willig, Darby?Finnegan, Patrick Green, Lee Courtright, and Zach Stinnett and (back, L-R) Chase Haage, Madison?Brown, Alex Duman, Drew Kelley,?Denis Cuffe and Kaleb Bass. |
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By Lorie Palmer - community editor, ICFP
GRANGEVILLE - "It's mostly the kids, it's on them if they want to do well. I don't have much to do with it," said Grangeville High School quiz bowl adviser Mark Willig.
Willig said this year did include a "dream team" of seniors as well as juniors, sophomore and freshmen who rounded out the team, 20-strong in all, which helped place them in the number one standing at the end of the season recently.
"They do a lot of preparing on their own and then we get together and practice, too," he said.
And where do the practice questions come from?
"Trade secret," smiled Willig, who has been the team's advisor for the past two years.
Grangeville competed against Nezperce, Prairie (Cottonwood), Orofino, Summit Academy (Cottonwood), Clearwater Valley (Kooskia), Kamiah and Timberline, which is how the standings ranked, one through eight, respectively.
School scores are either determined by adding up the top two team scores or by multiplying the one team score by 1.5 if the school has only one team present. Standings are then assigned by giving a 10 for the top total points, nine for the next highest pints and so on. This left GHS with the highest score of 69 at season's end. Nezperce had 62 and Prairie had 49.
Willig said the students not only answer a wide variety of questions - from math problems to ones about literary works - but also have to learn strategies to bet, in Jeopardy fashion.
"We hope to have more students get involved next year as we're losing a lot of seniors," he said.
Students in grades 9-12 who are interested in academic quiz bowl should see Mr. Willig.
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